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I have a project for school and I have no idea how to....?
start my paper. Its a genealogy paper and I have to have a family tree, which I have already started on. When I write in the names on the tree do I have to write their date of birth , or birth place or anything like that? Also, I know where most of these people were born but I dont understand what the teacher meant when she said that she didnt want to know where they were born. She said she wanted to know where they came from. Im confused. Please help me!!
I agree with Wendy. I sometimes sell my services at a church auction, when other people sell gourmet dinners for 8 or a trip on a motorcycle / sailboat / airplane. I figure it takes me 20 - 40 hours, over several weeks, to research their family for them. I have been doing genealogy for many years and have a census image subscription. I imagine ItsJustMe, Wendy or the rest of the top 10 could do a reasonable job for a person in that amount of time too.
That wasn't an offer, It was an explanation. Asking students to whip out a family tree in a week - or a weekend - is like asking someone who has never fished before to go out and catch enough trout to feed 12 people. You don't have the skills or the tools.
I always suggest people lie. Usually I wouldn't. In this case I do.
Ask your parents who their parents were. If your grandparents are alive, still speaking to you and not senile, ask them who their parents and grandparents were, what country they were from and roughly when they were born.
Look for them on:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
(Enter the first name, last name, change "Event" to "Birth", enter the year and change "Year Range" to +/- 5. Leave everything else blank.)
If you see someone who matches, claim him or her. Just make sure your "Family" has about 25 - 35 years between generations and they move generally west over the decades.
Where they are from - I was born in Modesto, Stanislaus County, California. If someone in England or China asked me where I was from, I would say I was an American. If someone from New York or Texas asked, I would say "California". If someone in California asked, I would say "Modesto". I think that is what your teacher meant; "England" rather than "Puggesly-on-the-Marsh, Shropshire, England".
Put the country if it is outside the US, and the state if it is in. Don't be afraid to put "Unknown"; we do that all the time. Just the birth year should be enough of a date, or "Abt. 19x0", where "x" is a guess. If your grandfather was born in, say 1930, his parents were probably born 16 - 40 years before that; 33 is a reasonable guess, so "abt 1900" would work.
This all assumes your parents are there in the home, your Dad read "Cat in the Hat" to you after dinner when you were 3, and your mom takes you to soccer practice.
If your mom had a fling when she was 20 and has never told you who the man was, this is going to be just one more reminder, one more scar on your heart.
If your dad's parents don't talk to you because your mom cheated on him and got custody of you in the divorce, again, it is going to be one more red-hot needle stuck into your eye, one more reminder that your family isn't as happy as some.
Some people's grandparents are so far into Alzheimer's they don't remember their own names, let alone their grandchildren's. If one of your classmates comes in with one half of his / her tree blank, DON'T make fun or ask why.
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